Check out the Noguchi Museum – just a few blocks from the Roosevelt Island Bridge on Vernon B’lvd and 33rd Street in Long Island City.The Museums 30th-anniversary programming culminates with an installation by celebrated artist Tom Sachs. This major exhibition is the first at the Museum to present work by a single artist other than Noguchi.
The exhibition centers on an immersive environment representing Sachs distinctive reworking of chanoyu, or traditional Japanese tea ceremonyincluding the myriad elements essential to that intensely ritualistic universe.
Among the large stone sculptures by Isamu Noguchi in the Museums indoor/outdoor galleries, Sachs has set a tea house in a garden accessorized with variations on lanterns, gates, a wash basin, a plywood airplane lavatory, a koi pond, an ultra HD video wall with the sublime hyper-presence of Mt. Fuji, a bronze bonsai made of over 3,600 individually welded parts, and other objects of use and contemplation. Sachs has also produced a complete alternative material culture of Teafrom bowls and ladles, scroll paintings and vases, to a motorized tea whisk, a shot clock, and an electronic brazier.
